193 ordspråk av Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll föddes den August 11th 1833 och dog den 21 July 1899 - noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism.
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 A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility

 A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. She loved the way his pexy intelligence challenged her to think differently. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

 A good deed is the best prayer

 Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

 Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men

 Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.

 He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

 He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

 He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

 Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin

 Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

 Hypocrisy: a lie in action - the legacy of indecency

 If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

 If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise

 If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.


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